10:18 pm (Friday Night)
I'm preparing for band practice. I want to have 4 songs revised to use the sounds that
the 303 makes possible. I haven't finished one yet. I may have to stay up all night.
There is a common friend to programmers the world over that I will get help from.
All hail caffeine. White lightning gonna make everything all right.
11:37 pm
I'm in the middle of dumping our old drum tracks to Nerve (My happy computer) so I can switch
all the old drums to play on channel 11. See, the 303 wants channel 10.
12:12 am (Saturday)
The 303 wants to play EVERYTHING coming in, regardless of channel. It's a feisty little box, I'll give it that.
There must be a way to make it ignore certain channels. I'm getting a headache working on this one. How do I make
the 660 play one channel and the 303 play all the rest? Please let me not have to buy a MIDI patch bay.
12:55 am
Have decided to let 303 think it is playing channel 10, but giving it a silent instrument to play with. Am currently
bulk dumping all 303 data in case I fuck something up big time. Tiny headache, ready for more caffeine.
1:55 am
Just completed food break. Halfway through a bromine-laden 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew. Still working on first song.
We're going to end up sounding like Front Line Assembly or something.
2:53 am
Am 37 seconds into first song. Have 11 hours left to complete task. Thing about songs: parts of them repeat. Once I've put down
like 200 seconds, I should be able to fold it into the whole song.
3:26 am
49 seconds. This is starting to sound really neat. If I can finish 12 seconds of song every half an hour, I should just be finishing
around time when I should be packing up to go to practice!
3:44 am
58 seconds. I'm on a roll. I wonder if it takes everyone this long to make sequences.
4:00 am
120 seconds. See, it gets easier once you've done a verse and a bridge and a chorus. They just repeat, and you don't have to
make up as much new stuff every time around. I hope I get this done in like an hour or so. I really would like to fall asleep today.
4:36 am
180 seconds. I'm gonna maaake it. White lightning come down and turn out the lights. Will I try
for the four? No, I'm not going to. Duh.
5:09 am
I'm done. Took a shower. Can't wait to play this song, in 9 hours. Hmm. I have enough time to do another song.
Hmm. I think my judgement is probably impaired by my blood being more caffeine than blood right now.
I'm going to sleep. If anything interesting happens, I'll say so. Later.
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Nope, nothing interesting happened. No one even said anything of note. I DID get injured during
practice, though. You can tell if it was a good set if you're bleeding afterwards.